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“Reading Richard Perez's THE LOSERS' CLUB was a revelation to me. It is a
novel by turns funny, poignant, and illuminating, perfect in its portraits
of both the East Village scene of the mid-'90s and the often desperate
personal ads subculture in New York City. Yet it is much more than a
fictionalized social document. Beneath Perez's dead-on descriptions of
downtown clubs and bars and of the people who patronized them is a sense of
deep longing for what has been lost—and for what may never be had. Perez's
is an exciting talent and his work far beyond most of what is published today.”

—Henry Flesh,
Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Michael and Massage

“Funny, touching, and very much alive, The Losers’ Club
throbs with the subculture of  East Village night life.
Buoyant and highly entertaining—
I couldn’t put it down.”

—Stanley Cohen,
Angel Face



“Richard Perez’s The Losers’ Club moves fast without blurring, and
documents New York City in all its self-invented variety: kitsch/retro
bars and cafes, goth vampires, dyke rock bands, desperately clever
personal ads, the endless cruise for a parking space, and loneliness so
relentless its victims wind up feeling stillborn. In its quicksilver way,
Perez’s novel manages to be cheerful, bleak, and edgy all at once.”

—John Vernon,
A Book of Reasons, Peter Doyle



“The Losers' Club gives a complete panoramic view
 of the downtown New York scene of the '90s,
 and along with all its flamboyant extremes...
 this novel has an appealingly
 old fashioned love story at its core.”

—Madison Smartt Bell,
All Souls' Rising, Ten Indians

“Every generation must describe for itself what it means to be a young writer or
artist struggling with anonymity and a mountain of rejection slips in a city like New
York. Richard Perez’s The Losers’ Club tracks the poet Martin Sierra’s melancholy
and yet somehow humorous and hopeful life with an acid, yet not unsympathetic,
pen. Perez has written a sharp, quick-paced satire of the personal ads subculture
and the generally doomed semi-relationships it leads to, the bizarre and manic club life,
where slam-dancing and other dangerous sports fail to mask the chronic – one might say
terminal – loneliness of the participants. I especially like how the kaleidoscopic whirl of people
and objects energizes the author and delights the reader with an almost photographic sense
of time and place.”

—Robert Siegel,
Best-selling author of The Whalesong Trilogy

“A fast, fun read.”

—Richard Rhodes,
A Hole in the World, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Pulitzer Prize Winner

“Rich Perez is a rare writer who moves with ease through the blasted lyric pain of
childhood, the mysterious and sensuous and powerless world of being a kid, into the
spotty drastic charm of ‘90s downtown flashy and downtrodden New York…having
arrived at adulthood so that he can taste it with pleasure….”

—Eileen Myles,
Chelsea Girls, Cool For You

“Mr. Perez has written a kind of contemporary fable of his generation’s life
in Manhattan, a fable at once humorous and poignant.”

—Alan Lelchuk,
Brooklyn Boy, American Mischief

“The Losers’ Club is a fine novel. Richard Perez has a wonderful eye for details of
the club scene and the humor to be found in urban decay.
It is a book to be savored.”

—Tim Sandlin,
Sorrow Floats, Social Blunders

“Richard Perez’s The Losers’ Club is a bittersweet trip through the East Village….
It’s a tale of love lost and found among the coffee shops, mosh pits and art galleries.
Take it from someone who’s spent half a lifetime archiving the scene—this one’s
spot on!”

—Ron Kolm,
poet, author, member of the Unbearables


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The Losers' Club: Complete Restored Edition
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